UNIT  I     AUTOMATA AND REGULAR EXPRESSIONS

Need for automata theory – Introduction to formal proof – Finite Automata (FA) – Deterministic Finite Automata (DFA) – Non-deterministic Finite Automata (NFA) – Equivalence between NFA and DFA – Finite Automata with Epsilon transitions – Equivalence of NFA and DFA- Equivalence of NFAs with and without ε-moves- Conversion of NFA into DFA – Minimization of DFAs.

UNIT   II   REGULAR EXPRESSIONS AND LANGUAGES

Regular expression – Regular Languages- Equivalence of Finite Automata and regular expressions – Proving languages to be not regular (Pumping Lemma) – Closure properties of regular languages.

UNIT   III   CONTEXT FREE GRAMMAR AND PUSH DOWN AUTOMATA

Types of Grammar – Chomsky‘s hierarchy of languages -Context-Free Grammar (CFG) and Languages – Derivations and Parse trees – Ambiguity in grammars and languages – Push Down Automata (PDA): Definition – Moves – Instantaneous descriptions -Languages of pushdown automata – Equivalence of pushdown automata and CFG-CFG to PDA-PDA to CFG – Deterministic Pushdown Automata.

UNIT   IV   NORMAL FORMS AND TURING MACHINES

Normal forms for CFG – Simplification of CFG- Chomsky Normal Form (CNF) and Greibach Normal Form (GNF) – Pumping lemma for CFL – Closure properties of Context Free Languages –Turing Machine : Basic model – definition and representation – Instantaneous Description – Language acceptance by TM – TM as Computer of Integer functions – Programming techniques for Turing machines (subroutines).

UNIT   V   UNDECIDABILITY

Unsolvable Problems and Computable Functions –PCP-MPCP- Recursive and recursively enumerable languages – Properties – Universal Turing machine -Tractable and Intractable problems 78 – P and NP completeness – Kruskal’s algorithm – Travelling Salesman Problem- 3-CNF SAT problems.